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James Stellar

@jamesrstellar

Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University at Albany, SUNY

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We just posted a fantastic new experiential education podcast on high school students. The program is called Jobs for America’s Graduates, and it has helped 1.5 million students in 40 USA States. It is told to us by the founder, Ken Smith. Have a listen. experienced.simplecast.com/episodes/41-ke…

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The challenges that higher education institutions will face as they try to balance COVID-related safety with graduation ceremonies (opinion) bit.ly/3dpToqA

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We just posted a great new podcast which comes to us from New Zealand and has a focus on research in the experiential education field as well. The interviewee is Dr. Karsten Zegwaard who is the editor of the IJWIL journal. experienced.simplecast.com/episodes/42-ka…

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We just put up a new blog post (our first in a while) about how an undergraduate research experience worked out in the time of a covid pandemic. Have a look. There are some good lessons in here for experiential education. otherlobe.com/senior-honors-…

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There has been some recent activity on our neuroscience of experiential education blog website, including a some posting on resilience, social media, and just now on art. Check out this piece otherlobe.com/unfaced-youth-…

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We just posted the third, and very interesting, blog following the Ninja teaching blog from experience teaching an industry-integrated class. This one is on the fundamental underlying principle of sympathetic intelligence. Check it out. otherlobe.com/papers/sympath…

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New exciting podcast on ExperencED featuring John Cimino, a science-trained opera singer, who started Creative Leaps International - a company that uses music to, as he says, "set the heart and mind in curious motion" - just like experiential education. experienced.simplecast.com/episodes/43-jo…

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The lab continues to produce interesting blogs. Here is one just posted on frontal cortex - amygdala interaction in control of anxiety as a model for the cognitive-emotional brain integration we see as underlying experiential education in college. otherlobe.com/mindfulness-an…

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A few of us just published an opinion piece in InsideHigherEd on the pandemic-revealed need for a bit more training in teaching in the development of our PhDs into university professors. Check it out.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/11…

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We just posted an amazing podcast by Rick Torres of the National Student Clearing house on emerging skills-documentation - the Learning and Employment Record. It will drive learning and post graduate success. Check it out. experienced.simplecast.com/episodes/ricar…

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ExperiencEd (experienced.simplecast.com) just dropped a very interesting podcast on a company that has developed conversations with avatars in helping students practice internship or cooperative education job interviews. Students seem to get a big boost in confidece. Check it out.

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ExperiencED just dropped another important podcast, this time with Dr. Norah McRae, the head of the Secretariate of World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) experienced.simplecast.com/episodes/52-no… that a few years ago moved to Canada at her University of Waterloo.

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We at ExperiencED just dropped a cool podcast with Dr. Stephanie Doscher of FIU on COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) - a very interesting form of experiential education and so much more. Check it out at our site - experienced.simplecast.com

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I have just posted my first and introductory Substack article that, this time, largely focuses on the issue of undergraduate mentoring by professors in higher education. Have a look: jstellarhighered.substack.com/p/ive-looked-a…

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Ian Sladen and I just posted a new article on Substack. Here is the link: jstellarhighered.substack.com/publish/post/1…. It is about "how a cooperative education school engages students and serves as a model for all universities" and that is the title. Check it out.

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I want to call your attention to my newest book co-authored with Dr. Brandy Eggan, Professional Wisdom: What a College Student’s Brain and Career Needs (IdeaPress, 2025, available August 26th on sources including Amazon amazon.com/Professional-W…